I was recently invited to The Black List’s inaugural Asian American Writers dinner, hosted by founder Franklin Leonard. To celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, The Black List asked us to pick an #EssentialAsianFilm and write about it.

“The film is intensely perfect at relating its world to ours in real life. The vast majority of us sit at a desk and lazily hammer on a keyboard at the intense eye of our bosses, and we are released only when the clock strikes a certain hour.”